Confirmed: Left home alone. A call goes out to the supervisor and property management.
Monday, March 2, 2009
Children Left Home Alone in Rogers Park
1:10 PM: 911 caller says children have been left unsupervised at 1521 West Sherwin, for a period of time. They're all very young and alone. When police arrive on scene, they find three children, ages 9 yo, 5 yo, 3 yo.
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That's horrible. Who could leave little kids alone like that?
Well let's not assume anything yet on why they were left alone. It's bad regardless of reason but hopefully it won't be due to work and no babysitter.
The 9 and 5 year old should be in school.
Pulaski Day -no school maybe?
Good observation Craig.
The only problem is that, there was no school today.
Timmy was relaxing today. His blog must be fat with "gangbangers breaking in car" entries.
That's why the kids were left alone- no school, and no day care available because it's a no-school day.
I remember my sister's travails with day care providers when she had three young kids (thankfully grown now). She was a divorcee who had to juggle three different day-care providers-one for each kid. It all cost her nearly $400 a week altogether, and she really disliked the setup the woman ran, who took care of her infant. Too many other kids, she said. But there was no alternative.
The baby had one sitter, but that sitter only took infants.
The other sitter took the pre-schooler, but only took kids full time. It was full time or nothing.
The other kid, in school, went to a church-run after-school program. When school was out, the day care center took a vacation, even though they collected the money for the entire month, and did not rebate off days.
And if you didn't like these terms, you were welcome to find another provider, good luck with that.
That meant that on School spring break, or over Christmas holiday, or on Presidents day or whatever, you had to scramble for day care. My sis had my retired mother, but many mothers aren't so lucky-Mom lives out of town or has passed on or had to go to work like other people.
My sister and I spent a number of school holidays being latchkey kids because of the difficulty of lining something up for that one day. And don't even THINK of taking them to work with you.
I don't know how women who work the many jobs with oddball hours and split shifts with 13-hour spreads, do it, such as CTA people, or police, or nurses.
Yeah no school on Pulaski day. I wish I would've known that was today. I walked to the library and found it closed.
Zorak, it seems like you were not the only one that did not know.
They guy who they were celebrating today, has some street named after him, somewhere in Chicago. He was some type of war hero or something like that.
North Coast, a woman with kids, who has gone through a divorce is seriously frowned upon in the "broken heart".
Actually, RP30, that didn't happen today. It's been very quiet in my area.
That is good news Timmy. Maybe, all the gangabangers took their kids to chucky cheese and everybody lived happily ever after :-)
I wish that'd happen, RP30. I know they'll be back soon enough. Also, the gangbangers are not the only people who cause problems in my area.
Leaving young children at home alone is very,very common. I've seen 7 year or 8 year old children being left alone and responsible for 2 or 3 year old children. I've made numerous arrests over the years for this. I'm amazed (and thankful) that there hasn't been an epidemic of young children harmed or victimized because of this.
My mother used to leave me and my younger siblings alone at home at night for years, beginning when I was four years old. She had a job at night. Dad didn't pay child support, nor did he offer to watch us (this was after my parents' divorce). Ma had no support system to help out. She did not trust babysitters. Child care services weren't as plentiful as they are today, and Ma couldn't have afforded them if they were. The job allowed her to be at home during the day when we came home from school.
Of course, in today's climate, child protective services would have hauled Ma in front of a judge. No, it's not a good thing to leave small kids at home alone, but unfortunately for a lot of single parents, there aren't many options. Good thing nothing serious happened to the kids while the parents were gone.
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